> > Towards the end of the Debian installation process, when you're asked
> > whether you want to run tasksel or dselect, you can choose dselect
> > and
> > exit it before installing any packages. If you do that, you're left
> > with a really minimal install. You might be able to base your work
> > on
> > this.
> since this is the way I usually work and I've tried to build a debian
> based thin client myself.....I can say that woody base contains a lot
> of packages which you really don't want/need on a thin client.
>
> Gr,
>
> Ivo van Dongen
...

 One way to do it is to have:

# ls -l
total 56
...
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Oct 20 11:08 deb
...
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Nov 30 2001 e2fs_stage1_5 -> ../grub-0.90/stage2/e2fs_stage1_5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 30 2001 grub -> ../grub-0.90/grub/grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 502 Oct 20 11:32 mkdisk
...
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Nov 28 2001 add
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2491 Oct 20 11:23 pkg.list
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Dec 4 2001 slim
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Nov 30 2001 stage1 -> ../grub-0.90/stage1/stage1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Nov 30 2001 stage2 -> ../grub-0.90/stage2/stage2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 573 Oct 20 11:11 trimming
...
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 800 Oct 20 11:17 updhostname...

 where "deb" is a minimal install of debian:

# chroot deb dpkg --get-selections > pkg.list

 "add" is whatever custom things you want to add and "slim" is a
 generated trimmed down root of the thin clients.

# du -s deb add slim
99304 deb
4352 add
42092 slim

 you generate slim with trimming, and customize it to a specific client
 with updhostname..., and write to disk with mkdisk. Later you can
 update the clients with mirrordir (found with apt-get install
 mirrordir).

Regards,
/Karl

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